And he was hilarious shark fishing with John Lurie!

ETA:

And completely eliding over the actual escape.

Exactly. A movie about a jailbreak that shows everything but the jailbreak.

What were your issues with DOWN BY LAW? I can see it being Benigni, but I actually like him in that movie. Watching Waits and Lurie do a slow burn at dealing with this weird little man cracks me up.

My only issue was with the Nicoletta Braschi section. I think it was supposed to be like the German Farmgirl section of Le Grande Illusion but it seemed utterly without charm to me (I didn't even like the slow dance - I know, I'm heartless). And yeah, Waits and Lurie were fantastic dealing with Benigni.

I think FISHING WITH JOHN would never have happened without him

YEAH. (Edit - "The fishermen wake up early in the morning, covered in sores and boners.")

Hey, I forgot to answer your comments about The Last Wave, Frank. I'll scroll back.

And Tom Waits getting his shit thrown out the window in New Orleans.

Heh, by a SUPREMELY pissed off Ellen Barkin. And he doesn't react until she gets to the shoes. He deserved to go to jail for not trying to stop her when she started on the vinyl - man's a DJ for cripessake.

always thought the last scene was ambiguous enough that it fit the rest of the movie

Well, I thought that he should have cut the water shots. The look on Chamberlain's face (and seriously, did he ever act in anything else he was in?) would have been fine on its own.

YEAH. (Edit - "The fishermen wake up early in the morning, covered in sores and boners.")

Heh. My favorite narrator bit: The Andaman Sea...The Andaman Sea...Oogly Boogly...The Andaman Sea

The look on Chamberlain's face (and seriously, did he ever act in anything else he was in?) would have been fine on its own.

PETULIA and THE MUSIC LOVERS (although the second only if you're a Ken Russell fan like me).

eta I do agree that nothing Weir could show was going to live up to that look, definitely.

PETULIA and THE MUSIC LOVERS (although the second only if you're a Ken Russell fan like me).

I'm not much of a Russell fan, but I'll check them out.

I'm not much of a Russell fan, but I'll check them out.

Well, PETULIA is Richard Lester, and it's a little dated, but it's got some very effective moments, plus Julie Christie (George C. Scott ain't bad either).

I seriously wouldn't recommend MUSIC LOVERS unless you were a Russell fan (and he's at his most excessive here) or really like Glenda Jackson.

t waves the POX TO KEN RUSSELL banner in the corner

I hate Music Lovers with the power of thousand supernovas, but it's been a while since I've seen it. I suspect I'd laugh instead of groan at the absurdities if I could make myself watch it again. It'd be a good MST3 material, at least.

Oh! And Russell did that movie about Liszt that had the Giant Dancing Penises on Stage. I probably won't mind watching that again.

Russell also did that movie about the vacation that spawned Frankenstein, right?